Monica Vitti

Cristina Borsatti wrote this biography succeeding in condensing the enormity of the artist’s contribution to the history of Italian cinema into just under three hundred pages, highlighting her mastery in being practically every possible woman, every ‘new’ woman in a rapidly changing society such as that of Italy from the 1950s to the 1980s. The writer’s praise insists above all on the interpreter’s ability to have been the emblem of the cinema of incommunicability, but also the only true female equivalent of the so-called ‘mattatori’ and ‘colonel’ actors of Italian comedy (Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Giancarlo Giannini, and Alberto Sordi).